Author Archives: Cam Dore

Accountable

He may have been about 14 or 15 years old, out with a bunch of his friends. They were a noisy bunch, banging into each other as they walked, laughing loudly, and generally being boys drunk on their own testosterone. I’m not fond of groups of teens, they so often see me as an easy […]

Posted in Rolling Around In My Head doing damns the darkness/ A Blog By Dave Hingsburger | Leave a comment

A Holiday Miracle

I rounded the back of the car and pushed myself up the cut curb. I think the crunching of salt under my tires caught his attention and he looked over at me. The school’s principal waved and commented on the mild night, I did too. He didn’t break his gait when he saw me, he […]

Posted in Rolling Around In My Head doing damns the darkness/ A Blog By Dave Hingsburger | Leave a comment

His Place

She is upset. Very upset. She sits down to talk to me during the morning coffee break. She is attending a conference wherein am presenting to staff at an agency in the morning and will be presenting to people with disabilities they serve in the afternoon. I usually prefer doing it the other way round […]

Posted in Rolling Around In My Head doing damns the darkness/ A Blog By Dave Hingsburger | Leave a comment

Encore

Have you ever had a behaviour that you wanted to get rid of, an impulse you wanted to control or a goal you wanted to achieve? Have you ever tried everything for change but find that you keep making the same bad decision over and over and over and over again? That’s me. Right now. […]

Posted in Rolling Around In My Head doing damns the darkness/ A Blog By Dave Hingsburger | Leave a comment

Oh, Oh, Oh, Conversations with Cripples

Three conversations: 1. At the gym, for exercise, I go up and down the ramp somewhere between 10 and 20 times. I’m not travelling for a bit so I want to do exercise that keeps my ‘pushing’ skills at their max. It’s a long ramp, a good grade, and it really works my muscles. I […]

Posted in Rolling Around In My Head doing damns the darkness/ A Blog By Dave Hingsburger | Leave a comment

One of Those Times

So we were headed to the elevator when one of the three women, all pushing their babies in strollers, used the ‘R’ word in a sentence. As it turned out they ended up right behind us as we waited for the elevator to arrive. The door opens. I turn to both back in and to […]

Posted in Rolling Around In My Head doing damns the darkness/ A Blog By Dave Hingsburger | Leave a comment

Bullies and Bigots and Big Mouths Beware

Social Violence. That’s what I call the day to day interactions with bullies and bigots and big mouths. Those people who intrude into my day to make comment on my body, my disability, and my way of being in the world. It’s a daily occurrence that I could do without. But, I realized only recently […]

Posted in Rolling Around In My Head doing damns the darkness/ A Blog By Dave Hingsburger | Leave a comment

An Active Life

By Dwight Arthur Grose My name is Dwight Arthur Grose, I am 59 years old and live with a wonderful Home Share Family in Abbotsford, BC. I have been a member of the Abbotsford Self Advocates Group for over 20 years and enjoy attending the Annual Leadership Retreat where I learn about my rights and […]

Posted in Our Stories | Leave a comment

CLBC’s E-Newsletter December,2018

    A bi-monthly update with news, stories and tips My house, my choice “As a parent of a child with different abilities, and just like any parent of any child, I want him to be happy and excited about his future. It just takes time – and lots of it!,” says Marnie of her […]

Posted in CLBC, Latest Announcements | Leave a comment

Penticton centre selected to deliver universal low-cost child care

Penticton Monday, December 17, 2018 1:35 PM Families at Kinderplace Okanagan Similkameen Neurological Society (OSNS) Child and Youth Development Centre are now paying no more than $200 a month per child as part of a B.C. government universal child care prototype project. “The name Kinderplace is appropriate because the centre welcomes children of all abilities, while […]

Posted in Latest Announcements | Leave a comment